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From: andrea@hp-sdd.HP.COM (Andrea K. Frankel)
Newsgroups: comp.text,comp.sources.wanted
Subject: Re: Wanted: Kanji font definitions
Message-ID: <1116@hp-sdd.HP.COM>
Date: 31 Dec 87 20:22:06 GMT
References: <2455@druco.ATT.COM>
Reply-To: andrea@hp-sdd.UUCP (Andrea K. Frankel)
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, San Diego Division
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Keywords: Kanji, font

In article <2455@druco.ATT.COM> justice@druco.ATT.COM (JusticeB) writes:
>Does anyone out there have font definitions for the all the Kanji?  I
>have the Hershey fonts which have about 500-600 of the Kanji
>definitions, but I need the definitions for ALL the Kanji (There are
>about 1850 Kanji that are most often used).  

I hate to tell you this, but there are upwards of 50,000 Kanji
characters!  

Some in-house investigation a few years back turned up
the figures that any particular [user + application] will have a
"working set" of about 2000 characters, but to accomodate a normal
variety of users and applications, a given product (such as a printer
or general-purpose text formatter) has to know over 10,000 of them.

In an attempt to get the situation under control, the Japanese
government drew up a core set of characters which newspapers writing
for the man in the street could rely on; I think this is the 1850 
figure you are referring to.  However, that set of characters does
not handle all needs, it's just a foundation to start from.


Andrea Frankel, Hewlett-Packard (San Diego Division) (619) 592-4664
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